To ask how many jobs you've had?

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How long have you been in the workforce and how many jobs have you had? What prompted each change of job?

I've been working 20 years and feel like I've had quite a high number of different jobs, so am curious to see how other people's careers have panned out. Will give my answers in the comments.

I’m 35, I had 2 part time retail jobs through college/uni, then I worked for a bank, then a teacher assistant and now a teacher so 5 in total.

Job 1 - resigned after 2 years, hated my new manager
Jobs 2/3/4 - temping jobs
Job 5 - resigned after a year to go to uni
Job 6 - resigned after 7 years to move to another country
Job 7 - made redundant after 2 years
Job 8 - resigned after 2 years (nightmare commute, weird company)
Job 9 - currrent job! Love it, but being made redundant next year after 2.5 years
Job 10 - who knows!

I’ve been in the workforce for 19 years although 6 of that was alongside full time education.

Lots of Saturday jobs from the age of 14, but in 25 years of full time work, I've had 4, in current job for nearly 13 years and last one was 9 years

Lol ok.

1. Resigned
2. Resigned.

Above were both part time jobs when I was a teenager before I entered the real world of work and since then...

1. Redundancy
2. Redundancy
3. Redundancy
4. Redundancy
5. Redundancy

1. Current job is dependent on the EU so once Brexit is sorted out I'll have a better idea of when I'm going to be made redundant.

I'm 35. So call it 15 years of work.

First job when I was 14. Did that as Saturday and holiday job till I finished Uni
Job 1 - 2 years. Left for a higher paying job with better prospects
Job 2 - 10 years. Company was taken over by an Indian firm, I was assigned a lovely Indian lady to work as my junior. 3 months later I was made redundant and she was given my job for a fraction of my salary!
JOb 3 - 4 months. Short term contract, was offered a permanent role but didn't really like the job that much
JOb 4 - 5 years. Was a contractor on a rolling 3 month contract. They lost a big contract I worked on, so my contract ended.
Current job - 7 years. Not planning to leave yet, but no pay rises for 3 years is making the position unaffordable.

33 years of working! Due to impending divorce I'll probably be working for another 30!

3 part time jobs alongside school/uni from age 14-21.
1 full time job for 1 year before going back to university for a PGCE.
Have been a teacher at the same school for the last 6 years.

Discounting the part time jobs - I've had 2 jobs and 7 working years.

Not counting part time jobs whilst at school, (chippy's / cafe's / hairdressers) I've had 1 employer since the age of 19.
I've been in the work force for 20 years.
I've had approx 7 different roles, in the company with the longest one being 5 years.
I'll never leave. I'm institutionalised now!
They are a fantastic employer with great benefits and flexibility. Why would I leave??!

I did lots of waitressing as a teenager and through uni.
Worked in retail for a while (2 different jobs), as a teaching assistant then did my PGSE and have been teaching for 17 years in 3 different schools.
I’m 43.

Job 1 2 years, promoted
Job 2 7 years, promoted
Job 3 4 years, career change
Job 4 2.5 years, back to old career
Job 5 2.5 years - long bloody story
Job 6 1.5 years, temp contract
Job 7 3 years, job relocated
Job 8 2 years, switched to mix of p/t jobs
Job 9-11 2 years portfolio of part-time and freelance, redundant from biggest p/t job to went back to f/t single job
Job 12 3 months in and hopefully I'll stay a long time - I really like it.

Twenty eight years of pretty much unbroken f/t work. I'm knackered.

Full time work for 34 years post university. Eleven jobs. Twenty two line managers!

Leaving aside voluntary work & secondary school thingies, I came up with 15 easily, so I'm guessing about 18. Left because I left the city/country, something better came along, loathed the work, was ready for something different, left one when boss refused to pay me what men who'd previously held the job were paid, work was seasonal, etc.etc.

35 yrs, but had long spell as mostly SAHM, too.
Mostly I've worked in science research, but widely different areas of science (including some qualitative). I've never had a permanent contract, so there expecting could move on.

Was maybe 7 yrs of mostly retail service jobs (maybe 9 ? employers), overlapping with 22 yrs in mostly science jobs (only 3 employers), next moving into data analysis for large public sector employer.

I've had some kind of job since I was 14, shop, cafe, bar etc etc.

Since completing my PGCE, I've had..
1 one year temp job
2 ran a pub!
3 - 3x pt jobs alongside each other
4 call centre for 10 years
5 teaching for 10 years - and hope to continue for lots more

6 full time serious jobs. I'm 37.

1. Left to go to no. 2
2. Left to go to no.3
3. Left to go to number 4
4. Made redundant/came to a settlement to leave
5. Went back to employer no. 2 but a better/more senior job
6. Now

Doubled my take home pay between 1&2 and 3&4

Job 1 8 years
Job 2 4 years
Job 3 3 years
Job 4 6 months
Current job - 3 months and counting, I love it so much!

Graduated 1996

• job 1: 5 years but took 1 year unpaid leave after 3. Went back for a year then took voluntary redundancy

• job 2: 2 years- outgrew it
• job 3: 2 years- hared it
• job 4: 2 years ( emigrated)
• job 5: same employer as job 4 but in different country: 7 years but role has evolve a lot over that time.

Part time jobs in school and 6th form college, cafe, babysitting, woolies.
Been working ft since age 19....
1986-1990 worked in a learning disability unit as a nursing assistant. The unit shut down and I was going to do do my nurse training so....
1990-1993, student nurse in mental health hospital. I did the traditional training so 6 weeks in school of nursing and I'm on wards, counted as a member of staff, giving injections. 90% of time on wards, remainder in school of nursing. Loved it. Happy days.
1993 temp job while looking for permanent job, another learning disability unit. There for 4 months.
1994--96, worked in a male prison. Hated it.
1996 to 2003, private medium secure unit which took NHS patients. Loved it at first as it wasn't the prison. Ended up hating it, basically they would keep patients there in a mediumbsecurevward for too long as the NHS were paying them £££ for it
2003 worked as a community mental health nurse back in the NHS, first in the duty team, then an Assessment and Brief Treatment team before they changed the way they worked and consequently my role. Was now expected to do more social work role, managing budgets, applyi6to housing panels etc but provided zilch training. Loved the patients and my colleagues hated my changed role and my new manager. Mass exodus of staff after the changes
2016 to now, Community Mental Health Nurse in referrals and assessment team. Team aren't as sociable as my last job but they're fine. I enjoy the work but wouldn't say I love it. After over 30 years in mental health and learning disability nursing I'm feeling jaded and burnt out.

I’m 45 and apart from 6 years of two degrees and 5 years being a SAHM have done, since 16

2 part time jobs while doing a levels
2 voluntary jobs abroad before degrees
5 part time jobs while studying
1 voluntary job wile studying
1 voluntary job while being a SAHM
1 full time job
1 full time job

I've had 4 jobs. I am 26! I left my last job as it was in a care home and I didn't want to work as a carer anymore

30 years/ 6 jobs:

Job 1 office junior
Job 2 office administrtor
Job 3 Change of office jobs to a career for 6 years
Job 4 then SAMH
Job 5 Xmas job, back to....
Job 6 Office administrator

I've been in the workforce 32 years and have had 8 jobs. The longest was my last one which I stuck at for 14 years.

Oooh! I'd never thought to count!

Paper round
Saturday shop x 2
Admin office job
Waitressing x 3
Door to door selling (sorry about that one)
Pubs x 6 or 7
Estate Agent
Typesetting x 2
Font digitising
(University) admin work during holidays and chocolatier (that was quite lucrative, should have stuck with it )
Group fitness instructor - lots of places
Community healthy living worker, incl: smoking cessation, weight management, exercise for frail elders (ran out of funding)
Lecturer x 3
Self employed
Considering adding textile art, teaching as well as selling

That all looks really weird! I wouldn't mind doing most of them again!